For an ill person who must drink at intervals on Yom Kippur, is water preferable, or is grape juice also allowed?
category: Holidays
For an ill person who must drink at intervals on Yom Kippur, is water preferable, or is grape juice also allowed?
If person must drink on Yom Kippur for health reasons, it is actually preferable that he should drink grape juice or other fruit juice, since this will enable him to have strength to see the fast through.
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